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ESI Special Topics, April 2006
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http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/april2006.html

From the database of Essential Science Indicators, this list of Emerging Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the current period of January 2000-December 31, 2005, and the previous period of November 1999-October 31, 2005 (sliding 6-year period).

Of the 5,353 Research Fronts in the 1999-December 31, 2005 file, a total of 448 (8%) were new.

April 2006

Field Name Description
Agricultural Sciences LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS-FERMENTED MILK POWDERS; REPEATED-DOSE TOXICOLOGICAL POTENTIAL; TRIPEPTIDES-CONTAINING LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS-FERMENTED MILK POWDER; TRIPEPTIDES (L-VALYL-L-PROLYL-L-PROLINE; TRIPEPTIDES-CONTAINING CASEIN HYDROLYSATE Assessing the mutagenic potential of tripeptides.
Biology & Biochemistry NEW POLY(A) POLYMERASE; NEW YEAST POLY(A) POLYMERASE COMPLEX INVOLVED; NUCLEAR QUALITY CONTROL PATHWAY INVOLVING; RNA QUALITY CONTROL; NUCLEAR POLYADE NYLATION COMPLEX A posttranscriptional quality control mechanism limiting inappropriate expression of genetic information.
Chemistry C-3V SYMMETRIC RECEPTORS; HIGH SELECTIVITY; BIS(ZINC(II)-DIPICOLYLAMINE)-BASED ARTIFICIAL RECEPTORS; HIGH AFFINITY; PHOSPHATE IONS; WATER Calorimetric phosphate-sensing probe.
Clinical Medicine CELL THERAPY ATTENUATES DELETERIOUS VENTRICULAR REMODELING; SKELETAL MYOBLAST TRANSPLANTATION; POSTINFARCTION LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; GRAFT CELL DEATH; IMPROVES CARDIAC PERFORMANCE Intramyocardial skeletal muscle transplantation improves heart function after infarction.
Computer Science BLADECENTER SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; BLADECENTER CHASSIS MANAGEMENT; BLADECENTER SYSTEM OVERVIEW; BLADECENTER PROCESSOR BLADES; BLADECENTER MIDPLANE A new server architecture which consolidates the server and network into a common chassis.
Economics & Business ILLINOIS DEATH PENALTY REFORM; DEATH ROW; UNITED STATES 1989; PROSECUTORIAL RESISTANCE; ZEAL DEAL An examination of DNA exonerations of defendants in the United States from 1989 through 2003.
Engineering QUASI-ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES; SUPER-QUASI-ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME TRELLIS CODES; IMPROVED QUASI-ORTHOGONAL CODES; FOUR TRANSMIT ANTENNAS; CONSTELLATION ROTATION
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Hamid Jafarkhani
Quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes can achieve a higher data rate in harsh conditions.
Environment/Ecology PARTICIPATORY RESOURCE MONITORING; PARTICIPATORY ECOLOGICAL MONITORING; PARTICIPATORY MONITORING; COMMUNITY-BASED MONITORING; IMPROVED MONITORING A participatory forest management system in Tanzania.
Geosciences ICESAT WAVEFORM MEASUREMENTS; ICESAT SYSTEMATIC GEOLOCATION ERRORS; ICESAT MISSION; ICESAT PERFORMANCE; AEROSOL MEASUREMENTS Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet surface elevation change detection.
Immunology SPLENIC MARGINAL ZONE B CELLS; BLOOD DENDRITIC CELLS INTERACT; DCS INDUCE CD40-INDEPENDENT IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; INITIATE T-INDEPENDENT IMMUNE RESPONSES; BLYS
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Andrea Cerutti
Dendritic cells upregulate BLyS and APRIL upon exposure to interferon-alpha, interferon-gamma or CD40 ligand.
Materials Science BETA-GA2O3 NANOWIRES; CATALYTIC GROWTH; CATALYTIC SYNTHESIS; GALLIUM OXIDE NANORIBBONS; ARC DISCHARGE Monoclinic gallium oxide nanowires.
Mathematics NONPARAMETRIC FRONTIER MODELS; NON-PARAMETRIC FRONTIER MODELS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; GENERAL METHODOLOGY; STATE

by Paul W. Wilson and Leopold Simar
Inferences about the efficiency of firms operating in a particular industry.
Microbiology PROKARYOTIC TOXIN-ANTITOXIN STRESS RESPONSE LOCI; TOXIN-ANTITOXIN LOCI; MRNA CLEAVAGE MECHANISM; MRNA INTERFERASE; HOST-ASSOCIATED PROKARYOTES
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Kenn Gerdes
TA loci function as stress-response elements beneficial to free-living prokaryotes.
Molecular Biology & Genetics CELLULAR MICRORNA MEDIATES ANTIVIRAL DEFENSE; VIRUS-ENCODED MICRORNAS; IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN CELLS; HERPESVIRUS FAMILY RNA silencing during infection of human cells by a DNA virus.
Neuroscience & Behavior NATIVE NEURONAL M CHANNELS; PIP2 ACTIVATES KCNQ CHANNELS; HYDROLYSIS UNDERLIES RECEPTOR-MEDIATED INHIBITION; N-TYPE CA2+ CHANNELS; ION CHANNELS PIP2 acts as a membrane-diffusible second messenger to regulate directly the activity of KCNQ currents.
Pharmacology & Toxicology CARCINOGENIC POTENTIAL; AC MOUSE; NEONATAL MOUSE; RASH2 MOUSE; P53(+/-) MOUSE PPAR-alpha agonist-induced rodent tumors.
Physics INDUCED MAGNETIC ORDERING; MAGNETIC CARBON; MAGNETIC NANOGRAPHITE; PROTON IRRADIATION
New Hot Papers Comment
by Penelope A. Fenner-Crisp
The observation of magnetism in a carbon solid based on polymerized fullerenes.
Plant & Animal Science PARTLY MEROMICTIC HYPERTROPHIC LAKE VEREVI; PARTLY MEROMICTIC TEMPERATE LAKE VEREVI; STRONGLY STRATIFIED HYPERTROPHIC LAKE; STRONGLY STRATIFIED TEMPERATE LAKE; PARTLY MEROMICTIC LAKE VEREVI The ecosystem and pollution of Lake Verevi in the Estonian town of Elva.
Psychiatry/Psychology COLLABORATIVE LONGITUDINAL PERSONALITY DISORDERS; OVERVIEW; IMPLICATIONS; FIRST SIX YEARS; ADULT DEVELOPMENT (MSAD) Ongoing investigation of the course of personality disorders in a sample of about 800 youths
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BALLOT MEASURE CAMPAIGNS; DIRECT DEMOCRACY; PUBLIC OPINION DETERMINES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; CAMPAIGN FINANCE; OLD QUESTION
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by Arthur Lupia & John G. Matsusaka
The presence of direct democracy induces sitting legislatures to govern more effectively.
Space Science DAMPED LY ALPHA SYSTEMS; 3 DAMPED LY ALPHA ABSORPTION SYSTEMS; COSMOLOGICAL MASS DENSITY; Z > NEUTRAL GAS
Emerging Research Fronts Comments
by 
Sandhya Rao & David Turnshek
Statistical properties of low-redshift damped ly alpha systems.
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